Saturday, June 16, 2007

Great Weed #6 Bishop's Weed


http://www.ehow.com/how_16306_grow-bishops-weed.html

There's a dumb web site.

Aegopodium podograria, the scourage of gardens, one of nature's most useful and most insidious weeds. It's dominance in June is unparalleled among weeds but only in gardens--go figure. Also call goutweed, as it was used in the year 1000 for just about everything but let's face it, science wasn't exactly on the front burner in the Dark Age.

I have a hill here that is pure bishop's weed in June. An amazing and actually delicate plant. When you weed whack it you get sprayed with juice.

1 comment:

Mary Anne Davis said...

I hate to say I hate anything which is naturally abundant, but I hate this stuff.